Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose.

• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Improvements in human rights never come from peaceful protest.

  The history of the US is slaves vs property owners. And the only leverage the slaves have ever had is numbers and orginized violence.

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  • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We badly need to evolve our idea of democracy to allow for it to work when the rich and corrupt self interests try to control it. the US system isnt safe against those influences so it seems doomed to fail in its current form.

    We cant just wait for benevolent strongmen like FDR (Roosevelt) to come along periodically and right the ship, followed by many decades of compounding corrupution. We were lucky to get Roosevelt and have the legacy of his influence last as long as we have. I’d guess that whats left of the new deal will be badly mauled or done away with by the end of trumps term, assuming we are even still a country with 50 states, which isnt looking promising. So its time to start thinking now about whats next.

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• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Elect ME president and I will do it by sheer force

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if some powerful people give you billions of dollars to not do it? And simultaneously other people start sending you credible death threats if you go through with it.

    Now imagine they’re also threatening your family and that you love your family a lot.

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    • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They can give me all the billions, I’ll do it anyways, and then I’ll tell em “no give backsies”

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well you managed to avoid the question…

        Imagine the money was contingent on the action.

        And like I said, imagine you loved your family, like for instance if it were your spouse and kid.

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    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dont care about the money Fear and threats would be even more motivation.

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Violence has never worked!”

  Except for all the times it has.

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